Chick Cancer

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“Chick Cancer”
Family Guy episode

Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 87
Guest stars	Drew Barrymore
Written by	Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild
Directed by	Pete Michels
Production no.	5ACX02
Original airdate	November 26, 2006
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"Chick Cancer" is the 7th episode of Season 5 of the FOX animated television series Family Guy.

1 Plot summary
2 Notes
3 Cultural references
4 References

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Stewie sees on the news that his old friend, child actress Olivia's Hollywood career is coming to a close and she is making one last appearance at the Quahog mall. He goes to the mall to gloat but winds up falling in love with her. She does not return his feelings. Stewie takes Brian's advice to be mean to her, and soon they tie the knot with Rupert officiating. But their relationship quickly turns into a stereotypical marriage filled with resentment and bickering, which comes to an ugly head when they join Brian and Jillian on a double date. When he discovers that Olivia is cheating on him, Stewie sets fire to their pretend house, presumably killing Olivia and her new playmate in the process.

Meanwhile, Lois introduces Peter to chick flicks, and he decides to make his own "chick flick". His movie, called Steel Vaginas, is hated by everyone.

[edit] Notes

This is the second episode featuring Stewie's show business partner Olivia (voiced by Rachael MacFarlane, Seth MacFarlane's sister), after "From Method to Madness". Her last name is revealed to be Fuller.
Brian's comment about black men to Stewie is a running joke on the show, suggesting that Brian's father was a racist, first shown in "Don't Make Me Over", and later in "Peter's Got Woods".
Stewie's troubled relationship with Olivia is a running joke about his ambiguous sexual orientation. This ambiguity is furthered during the closing credits scene.
Meg and Chris did not have any lines in this episode.

[edit] Cultural references

The Star Wars cutaway in the opening is a recreation of a similar scene in Curb Your Enthusiasm, complete with theme music.
In a scene with Sandra Oh, Peter speaks to her slowly, under the misapprehension that she does not understand English.

Chester Cheetah as seen on Family Guy.

The name of Peter's film, Steel Vaginas, is a play on the film Steel Magnolias.
The scene where Brian continually tells Stewie "it's not your fault" recreates the same scene in Good Will Hunting.
Chester Cheetah is seen, snorting Cheetos from a tray as if it were cocaine and listening to Rush's Tom Sawyer. He exclaims, "Oh God! There is no fucking drummer better than Neil Peart! and then states, "...it ain't easy bein' cheesy", a reference to his commercials where he would usually use the word "cheesy".
During the advertisement for a compilation of 80's television punchlines, Howard Hesseman provides a testimonial in exchange for cannabis.
Stewie relates that he was once roommates with Q*Bert.
Peter claims that he was the original Pretty Woman. A cutaway shows him, in a red dress, replacing Julia Roberts' role opposite Richard Gere.
The George and Ira Gershwin piece Someone to Watch over Me plays over the scene under the suspension bridge.
Several Woody Allen films are referenced: the scene where Stewie and Olivia are people watching is similar to a scene in Annie Hall in which Allen and Diane Keaton make similar quips about people walking by. Victor is a parody of Alan Alda's appearance as a pompous writer in Crimes and Misdemeanors. The scene where they're sitting under a bridge is a parody of Manhattan^[1].
Stewie makes a reference to the Don McLean song American Pie while talking to Brian.
During a newscast, Tom Tucker refers to the flooding of New Orleans, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Victor played a dead baby on the show CSI: Miami.